Coin-controlled vending-machine.



E. H. 000K.

COIN CONTROLLED VENDING MACHINE.

I APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 6, 1907. I 91 0,907, Patented J an. 26, 1909.

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E. H. 000K. COIN GONTROLLBD VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION IILED AUG. 5, 1907.

Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

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EDGAR'H. COOK, OF GREAT NECK, NEW YORK.

COIN-CONTROLLED VENDING-IYIACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR H. 000K, a citizen of the United States, residing. at Great Neck, in the county of Nassau and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Coin-Controlled Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in vending machines for confections, etc., which are manually actuated ufpon the insertion of a coin, with the object 0 segregating the operative elements into independent sets for each merchandise holder or hopper, whereby said parts are rena suitable caseand independently removable. i

In carrying out my invention, each of the series of operative elements is alike, therefore the descriptionandithe illustration'of one in its simpler and preferred-form will sufiice. I provide an inclosing case for the coin actuated mechanism within which there are guide rods for a reciprocating carriage. In thecarriage there is a coin slot through which the coin is passed, a coin way in' the carriage and stop-bars which. revent the pulling out of a coin inserted to 'raudulently work the machine and a magnet to attract and hold a piece of metal other than the coin if inserted for fraudulently working the machine. it p The case contains a coin carrier pivot-ally mounted to rock and having a coin way for receiving and a stop-pin for regulating the reception of the coin and locking-arms for engaging parts of the carriage to prevent the fraudulent movement of the same. The carriage also is provided with tilting and push fingers which upon the insertion of the coin and the movement of the carriage manually, tilt the coin carrier and unlock the carriage and with the further movement of the car riage push out the coin into a suitable receptacle. 'I also provide a stripper-plate for removing disks or rings of metal other than a coin, which are inserted tofraudulently work the machineand are held in place by the magnet. I may further provide an ejector-plate for lifting up each package of goods as delivered from the machine into a position where the same is easily engaged by the fingers, and I may em loy springs for returning the coin actuate devices to .an initial position. Y I I In one form of my invention, the return springs are not, employed because the recip moved Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

rocating carriage might be pushed back by the hand to an initial osition, and in this form of my invention do not employ the ejectorlate because the goods may be rey hand as delivered, it not being essential to lift the goods up into a more convenient position.

- In the drawing, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section and partial elevation representing the, device of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on about the dotted line 56, .r, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section on about the dotted line y, y, of Fig. 1, looking forward or to the right hand of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents on a smaller scale the same parts as are shown in Fig. 1 in the extended position of the reciprocating carriage. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section of a form of my invention in which the e'ector-plate and the return springs are emp oyed; the other parts being substantially the same. Fig. 6 is a partial longitudinal section of the part of the structure showing the ejector-plate in its elevated position for the delivery of the goods, and Fig. 7 is a plan view of the ejector and rear part of the reciprocating carriage.

The case of the coin controlled vending machine adapted to receive the operating mechanism and which as an entirety is removable from a suitable containing case for the complete machine, generally comprises the side-plates a a with the rising flanged extensions 6, a back plate 0, a front plate cl and top plates e 6 The back and front plates 0 (i may be thick as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, or thin and flanged as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and in either case the said plates and the side-plates are preferably securely connected together by screws.

The guide-rods f f are parallel with one another and extend between the front and back of the case to support the reciprocating carriage, the same being apertured for and moving upon these guide-rods. It will be noticed that the front plate (1 is shorter than the back plate; the same provides for the forward end of the reciprocating carriage which extends above this front plate with its face in line therewith. The reciprocating carriage comprises the top plate 9, solid at the front of the carriage and divided at the back of the carriage by the central opening and at this place the top-plate is provided with oppositely disposed flanges 2, which at their forward ends act as pushers tomove forward the lowest package of goods with the forward movement of the carriage. The top plate is formed with a rising closure shell 9 between which and an up-turned part of the said top-plate is located the coin slot 6.

h 7?}1 are the side-plates of the carriage. W the bottom-plate which is about the same length as the sideplates.

h is the front-plate which may be an overturned prolongation of the top-plate closing up the front of the carriage and with the front plate of the case, the top-plate e of the case forming a substantially un-broken continuity to the front of the vending machine devices. The back guide-plate t is a further portion of the reciprocating carriage secured to the divided back portion of the top-plate and continuing down adjacent to the backplate of the case and between the side-plates of the case, and this back guide-plate is provided with a forwardly extending portion or arm which terminates in the tilting and pushing fingers t '6 shown particularly in Figs. 1, 4 and 5. The front guide-arms k k are other parts of the reciprocating carriage extending down from the lower portion thereof at the back end of the bottom-plate 7L2, the said guide-arms 7c M being perforated for the rods 1 f and extending along beneath the same, their lower forward ends being adapted for engagement with locking-arms of the coin carrier hereinafter described. The lower end of the back guide-plate t is also perforated for the guide-rods f f and in this manner this reciprocating carriage is supported and guided in its movement.

1 represents a merchandise holder formed of a rectangularly bent sheet of metal which is received within and between the side flanged extensions at the side-plates of the case, and in this holder similar articles of merchandise are placed and stored, as is well known in this art.

A coin carrier m is provided with opposite slots forming a coin-way with rocking arms m m connected thereto and extending therefrom toward the front of the case, the forward ends of which arms are up-turned so as to engage and lock with the carriage at the forward ends of the arms k k so as to prevent the carriage being drawn beyond the ends of said arms with the operation of the same except upon the introduction of a suitable coin. Springs 3 at opposite sides of the case are connected to the casev and come at their free ends beneath the rocking arms m m This coin carrier is provided with pivots 4 in the side-plates a a so as to rock therein, and it is also provided with a stop-pin 5 in one side so as to limit or determine the downward movement and position of a suitable coin.

The reciprocating carria e has formed therewith two op osite members in. and between which is t e coin-way n, the upper end thereof coming directly below the coin slot 6 so that a com 12 passed through the slot 6 falls immediately on the inclined coinway a to descend the same by gravity, and this part at is provided with stop-bars o pivoted thereto. A magnet r is also provided and which passes through opposite parts of the coin way member at. The ends of the said magnet r as fixed and held in its position by the stop-pin 7 are exposed in the coin-way so as to attract and hold in posi tion a piece of iron or device introduced to fraudulently work the machine. Attached to this reciprocating carriage is an inverted U-shaped stripper-plate s, the function of which is to remove from the attraction of the magnet or from the coin-way, any inserted member other than a coin, by virtue of the fixed position of the said stripper-plate s in relation to the movement of the carriage. The stop-bars also perform the function of preventing the withdrawal from the machine of a device or even a coin that may be inserted for the fraudulent working of the machine.

Upon top of the carriage I have placed finger-lugs t to be engaged by hand in moving the carriage and by these lugs the carriage may be pulled out from the position shown in Fig. 1 until the forward ends of the front guide-arms 7c 7c come in contact with the up-turned ends of the rocking-arms m m when the carriage will stop. This movement however, is not sufficient to pull the carriage out to such an extent as to discover and be able to remove any package of merchandise.

In the preferred form of my invention as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, I provide an ejector plate a pivoted at 8 to and between the sep arated flanged end of the top-plate and provided with a s ring 9 adapted to raise the said ejector-p ate and the package of goods thereon into the osition shown in Fig. 6. In the initial position of this ejector plate shown in Fig. 5, it will be noticed that the end or tail piece 10 of the said plate is above and has over-run a lug 11 on the back-plate c of the case and by so doing this ejector-plate is held in a horizontal position against the tension while the plate is beneath the superimposed packages of goods or merchandise in the mercharn'lise holder. As soon however, as the carriage is moved forward and the tail-piece 10 removed from this lug 11, the spring comes into evidence with a tendency to lift the plate a and this lifting is effected as soon as the carriage has been moved sufficiently forward to free the package of goods or merchandise from beneath the top-plate c of the case; the said spring action and the momentum of the case as pulled forward tending to throw the package of merchandise into the position shown in Fig. 6. In

this preferred form of my invention, I employ helical return springs 42, the rear ends of which are connected to hooks in the back plate 0 of the case and whose forward ends are connected to other hooks secured to any suitable or desired portion of the carriage to its initial position.

In all essential pointsthe devices illus-c trated in the respective figures of the drawing are in essential agreement except with regard to the ejector-platen and the return springs '11.

In the form of my invention shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, the back portionof the to plate 9 supports the packages of goods in t 1e merchandise holder while in the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the ejectorlate it connected to the back portion of this p ate and between the flanges thereof performs the same function. The coin carrier simply rocks in the case and in the operation of the device shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, a coin of the pro er denomination is first inserted at the coin s 0t 6 and as the same falls through the coin slot it falls onto and down the coin-way n and upon the coin carrier and is arrested by the stop-pin 5. The coin is now in a position beneath the tilting end 11 of the plate secured to the back guide-plate and carriage, so that when the carriage is pulled forward by the hand grasping the lugs t, the action of the tilting finger i is against the surface of the coin, pressing on the same against the tension of the springs 3 to rock the said coin carrier and in so doing bring the coin into a more nearly horizontal position and simultaneously swing down the rocking-arms m m so that their free ends come into a plane that is below the plane of the lower edge of the guidearms 7c 76; thus permitting the carriage to move forward above the free ends of the rocking-arms m m With this movement the end of the push-finger 77 comes against the back edge of the coin, moving the coin gradually forward in the grooves of the coin carrier m. The parts are so constructed and the movement so timed that the arms 7c 7c pass along above the free ends of the arms m m before the force exerted upon the coin is terminated and after reaching this position the coin is pushed forward in the coin-way of the carrier at to such a position that it is tipped out of the carrier and the ends of the arms m m come u against the under surfaces of the arms 7c 1 as shown in Fig. 4, permitting the reciprocating carriage to be drawn out to its full extent so as to deliver the package of goods 13 as shown in Fig. .4, where the same may be gras ed by the fingers and removed. After this t e carriage is to be returned to its initial position by hand.

The lowermost package of goods or the one 4 to be next delivered fromthemachine comes between the closure shell 9 and the ends of the flanges 2 and the goods will be thus moved back and forth in any incomplete movement of the carriage, the outward or delivery movement being effected by the flanges 2.

The same movements take place exactly with reference to the form of my invention shown inFigs. 5 and 6, except that the package of goods 13 is ejected by the ejector-plate u as shown in Fig. 6, and the contractile or return springs v bring the carriage back to an initial position as shown in Fig. 5.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a coin controlled vending machine, the combination with a reciprocating carriage, of a pivoted and swinging coin carrier, interlockin devices associated with said parts for ho ding the carriage, a plate secured to and movable with said carriage and having spaced a art fingers, the one for engaging the coin in t e coin carrier and swinging the carrier'with the movement of the carriage and simultaneously disengaging said interlocking devices, and the other finger for discharging the coin from the carrier.

2. In a coin controlled vending machine, the combination with a reciprocating carriage, of a pivoted and swinging coin carrier aving opposite coin receiving slots between which is a free passage, interlocking devices associated with said parts for holding the carriage, a plate secured to and movable with said carriage through the passage between the coin slots and having spaced apart fingers, the one for engaging the coin in the coin carrier and swinging the carrier With the movement of the carriage and simultaneously disengaging said interlocking devices, and the other finger for discharging the coin from the carrier.

3. In a coin controlled vending machine, the combination with a reciprocating carriage, of a coin carrier for receiving the coin and arms formed therewith having upturned free ends, pivots for the coin carrier and its arms whereby the same are adapted to swing in opposite directions, a plate secured to and movable with the carriage and having spaced apart fingers, the one for engaging the coin and swinging the carrier and the other for discharging the coin from the carrier with the movement of the carriage, coacting devices secured to the carriage and coin carrier resfiectively and moving therewith and initia y preventing the withdrawal of the carriage and delivery of the goods, which latter devices are held out of contact by the means engaging the coin during the movement thereof and swinging the carrier previous to discharging the coin.

i 4. In a coin controlled vending machine, the combination with a reciprocating carriage, of a coin carrier for receiving the coin and arms formed therewith having upturned freeends, pivots for the coin carrier and its arms whereby the same are adapted to swing 1n opposite directions, a plate secured to and movable with the carriage and having spaced apart fingers, the one for engaging the coin and swinging the carrier and the other for discharging the coin from the carrier with the movement of the carriage, bent or off-set guide-arms formed with the carriage and arms having up-turned ends formed with the coin carrier, said parts adapted to come into engagement to prevent the complete withdrawal or movement of the reciprocating carriage, exceptupon the insertion of a coin of proper denomination, said devices being held out of contact and engagement by the tilting and pushing fingers engaging the coin during the movement thereof in swinging the carrier previous to the discharge of the coin.

5. In a coin controlled vending machine and in combination, an inclosing case having side plates, back and front plates, top plates, guide rods that extend between the front and back plates and are connected thereto, a reciprocating carriage comprising a top plate, back guide plate, a closure shell in the top plate forward of which is a coin slot, a bottom plate, a front plate, a coin way supported by and movable with the carriage, a swinging coin carrier, means actuating the same and delivering the coin and freeing the carriage.

6. In a coin controlled vending machine and in combination, an inclosing case having side plates, back and front plates and top plates. and guide rods that extend between the front and the back plates and. are connected thereto, a reciprocating carriage comprising a top plate, a back guide plate, a closure shell in the top plate forward of which is the coin slot, a bottom plate and a front late, a coin-way supported by and movab e with the carriage, a pivoted and swinging coin carrier, arms having engaging free ends formed with the carrier, devices initially preventing the withdrawal of the carriage and delivery of the goods, which are adapted to co-act with the arms of the carrier, a plate secured to the reciprocating carriage and having at its free end spaced apart fingers, the one for acting upon the coin and tilting the carrier and its arms so as to unlock the same and free the carriage, and the other for pushing the coin out of the carrier and discharging the same, whereby the carrier and its arms are released to return to an initial position.

7. In a coin controlled vending n'iachine, the combination with the side plates and front plate of a case, of a reciprocating carriage having a front plate rising above the front plate of the case and coming between the side plates of the case, a swinging coin carrier, means actuating the same for delivering the coin and freeing the carriage, a top plate occupying a horizontal position and extending from the front plate of the carriage backwardly and having a raised portion of about the thickness of the package of goods delivered and forming a closure shell in advance of said package of goods, there being a coin slot forward of this closure shell, a top plate to the ease coming above the closure shell and flanged extensions to the rear of the case acting as supports for the device holding the merchandise to be delivered.

8. In a coin controlled vending machine, the combination with a suitable case and reciprocating carriage, of a back plate, a plate extending forward from connection with the back plate and terminating in spaced apart fingers 1' a pivotally mounted spring actuated coin carrier having a coin-way and adapted to rock on its pivot, a stop-pin in the coin-way of this carrier to limit the position of a coin of a suitable denomination, coacting devices uaon the carriage and coin carrier respective y and initially preventing the withdrmval of the carriage and delivery of the goods, and which latter devices are held out of contact by the action of the linger i contacting with the coin and tilting tl e carrier and which parts are again brought into engagement by the action of the finger in discharging the coin.

Signed by me this 22nd day of July, 1907.

EDGAR H. COOK.

Witnesses ARTHUR H. SERRELL, BERTHA M. ALLEN. 

